Yahoo! Mail Blog, UK and Ireland

As a Yahoo! Mail user you’re probably vaguely aware that Yahoo! does other stuff too. Lots of other stuff. Did you know that there are over half a billion people doing stuff on Yahoo! every month? I find that very difficult to get my head round…that’s even more people than you get at a Rolling Stones gig isn’t it?

So what on earth are they all doing? And, more importantly, why should I/you/we care?

We’re starting up a new monthly email newsletter which will answer those questions. We believe that the stuff people are doing on Yahoo! is potentially very interesting and that “yes!”, we should care, because we might just discover some wonderful new things for ourselves.

So, if you agreed to let Yahoo! send you email when you set up your account, you can now look forward to seeing some of the fantastic, creative ways people use Yahoo! every month. And don’t worry, we won’t be trawling Yahoo! for embarrassing pictures or hilarious spelling mistakes… we respect the privacy of all our users and will not show anything without permission from the person who created it.

What else?

Will I get Yahoo! By You?
If you want to check whether or not you agreed to let us send you emails, click here. You can set your preferences as you please but remember – we’ll only ever send you stuff that we think you’ll find genuinely useful and interesting.

How can I get involved?
We want individual users to star in every issue of Yahoo! By You. If you’ve got some interesting things to share, you can volunteer yourself. Click here to become a Yahoo! By You Star!

Tell us what you think…
It’s not called Yahoo! By You for nothing. We need to know exactly what you think about this newsletter. Please leave comments, suggestions, rants against this post. Look forward to hearing from you.

Happy emailing!
Andrew - Yahoo! Mail Team

I wanted to share one more new feature of the all-new mail with you. It’s something that you may have noticed already, but if not I thought I’d let you know that it’s there. First, a question (not applicable to you Apple users)… How many times have you been working on that all-important document, and all of a sudden - ZAP - your computer crashes and you lose all of your hard work?

Well with the all-new Yahoo! Mail, you never have to worry about that with your Yahoo! emails. As you type and the minutes tick away, the all-new Yahoo! mail is working in the background to help make sure that power failures and other niggly computer problems don’t make you lose that important email you’re writing. Of course I’m talking about the “auto-save” feature, which saves a copy of your email to the Drafts folder at regular intervals. You can tell your message has been saved into your Drafts folder as pictured here:

Of course you can always use the “Save Draft” button at the top of your message if you want to save it to your drafts folder more frequently.

So if you didn’t have time to finish your message or if you just needed to step away from the computer, not to worry, we’ll save your message to your Drafts folder and you can continue it at your leisure. And in the event when your computer should crash (I’m sure you Apple users are laughing at us Windows users) we’ve got you covered with the Auto-save feature.

Happy emailing!
Andrew - Yahoo! Mail Team

For your viewing pleasure, check out this video featuring the chat feature in Yahoo! Mail. I for one, think it’s very cool.

Having trouble seeing the video on this blog? Click here to view it.

Reminds me a lot of the emoticoncert video from a while back.

Happy emailing!
Andrew - Yahoo! Mail Team

Last week I told you about the “download all attachments” enhancement for the all-new Yahoo Mail. Well, that was just one of the new features of the all-new Yahoo Mail. This week it’s all about the Mac.

Some of you have probably already noticed that you no longer get the browser incompatibility warning when logging into the all-new mail. However, for those Mac users out there who are still using the classic version of Yahoo! Mail, there’s no better time to switch to the all new mail.

The rollout is complete, so everyone using Safari (please see my note about versions) should be able to use the all-new mail version.

So now a note about operating systems: Folks running the most recent update of Tiger (OS 10.4.11), as well as those using any version of Leopard (OS 10.5.x), will have a version of Safari that plays nice with the All-New Yahoo! Mail. Or maybe it’s a version of Safari that the All-New Mail plays nice with. Either way, they are friends now.

Oh – and for you Firefox users out there, there is also browser support for the Firefox 3 beta version.

Happy emailing (with Safari)!
Andrew – Yahoo! Mail Team